Example sentences of "so be that " in BNC.

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1 The arguments against doing so are that :
2 ‘ Indeed , ’ said Bishop Jon , ‘ 't is to be hoped that the two saintly souls got on well together in life ( if so be that they ever met at all , which I take leave to doubt ) now that the lord King has made a packet of them , so to speak , for posterity .
3 Stated generally , the fundamental rationale he offers for having to do so is that he , either himself or as the agent of society , knew better than the patient what should be done to or for the patient .
4 What seems to have happened over the last twenty years or so is that a higher proportion of juveniles are being dealt with officially by the police rather than being dealt with unofficially or warned .
5 The ICRF is such a worthy cause and what makes it particularly so is that it uses just 8p out of every £1 for administration , meaning 92p really goes on advancing the research , ’ she said .
6 The main reason why this is so is that ‘ our English [ sic ] executive is , as a general rule , becoming more and more the representative of a party rather than the guide of the country ’ .
7 The stated reason for doing so is that an increasing number of cardholders are paying their bill at the end of each month , pay nothing for the card , and are therefore being subsidised by those who do use the credit facility .
8 The implicit assumption as to why this should be so is that questions of law are for the ordinary courts .
9 So is that why you 're moving into town ? ’
10 One reason why that will be so is that we have a coherent approach to Europe , not one that changes every weekend .
11 The major disadvantage of doing so is that the data formats required by the two packages are very different .
12 Just as the line between semantics and pragmatics is fuzzy , so is that between the indexical and symbolic meanings of deictic terms .
13 His motive for doing so is that he thinks that English verse has been ill-served by prosodists in the past .
14 It 's not my fa , so is that , is that my fault ?
15 We all know that a full moon is not normally conducive to good fishing , so was that half moon enough to make the difference ?
16 The reason why they did so was that in the case of man neoteny was an evolutionary trend largely in the service of ego and superego development .
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